Chemist (Food and Beverages) at Leventis

Responsibilities

• Check raw ingredients for maturity or stability for processing and finished products for safety, quality, and nutritional value.
• Develop food standards and production specifications, safety and sanitary regulations, and waste management and water supply specifications.
• Develop new or improved ways of preserving, processing, packaging, storing, and delivering foods, using knowledge of chemistry, microbiology, and other sciences.
• Evaluate food processing and storage operations and assist in the development of quality assurance programs for such operations.
• Inspect food-processing areas to ensure compliance with government regulations and standards for sanitation, safety, quality, and waste management standards.
• Study methods to improve aspects of foods, such as chemical composition, flavor, color, texture, nutritional value, and convenience.
• Test new products for flavor, texture, color, nutritional content, and adherence to government and industry standards.
• Documentation of reports.
• Confer with process engineers, plant operators, flavor experts, and packaging and marketing specialists to resolve problems in product development.
• Study the structure and composition of food or the changes foods undergo in storage and processing.
• Testing and Calibration of equipment.
• Stay up-to-date on new regulations and current events regarding food science by reviewing scientific literature.

Qualification and Requirements

• B.Sc, HND in Food Chemistry or Microbiology with minimum of 5 years’ work experience in a food processing industry.
• Knowledge of a range of sciences and their applications to food
• Good business, IT, analytical and numerical abilities
• Being a confident independent worker
• Meticulous attention to detail, particularly with regard to health, safety and hygiene
• Candidates must have worked in a food processing industry